Family & Friends of Cancer Patients Support Group

This community is dedicated to parents, siblings, grandparents, other relatives, friends and caretakers of cancer patients. It's difficult to find a safe place to talk about caring for a loved one with cancer, and so this group serves as an open forum to foster positivity and support for those going through this tough time.

Please help?

I want to know if the following is part of the process of Leukemia or should I worry? Renald my brother in law was diagnosed last Thursday. For the last two nights he's had a high temperature that they haven't been able to bring down. He was to start Chemo on Wednesday, but they've now brought it forward to Tuesday (tomorrow).

First, you have to know the specific type of leukemia your brother has. Each type has somewhat different symptoms and effects on the body.
From what I can tell, fever is pretty common with acute leukemia. You may want to get the specific diagnosis and then do a Google search with that and the word fever.

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